Turned Earth

Auteur

Brad Richard is a poet based in New Orleans who has received honors from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and Poets & Writers. He is the author of four other books of poems, including Parasite Kingdom, winner of the Tenth Gate Prize. In 2015, he was named Louisiana Artist of the Year.

Texte du rabat

"Turned Earth, the title of New Orleans poet Brad Richard's fifth collection, evokes an array of suggestive images and experiences: the turned earth of a garden bed or a grave; Earth turning through seasons and years; earth as material shaped or crafted, as on a potter's wheel; turning earth as metaphor for thought and reflection; and the sense of 'turned' as meaning 'spoiled,' our Anthropocene crisis never far from the poet's mind. Haunted by his mother and her own thwarted dreams of becoming a poet, the speaker meditates on grief while seeking out joy in all its forms"